Armed Forces: Operation Jungle Jim

It was an odd leave-taking from
Florida's Eglin Air Force Base. The wives were up to date in Jamaica
shorts and Capri pantsbut their Air Commando husbands, togged out in
green fatigues and ANZAC-style campaign hats, looked like something out
of a World War II movie.
Some of the men stood with their families alongside a flight ramp;
others huddled near a waiting Military Air Transport Service C-118.
Then, with the call of the roll, the 53 men went one by one into the
big transport. It swung around, taxied to the...